Copious New Teacher Training Data Emerging

Stephen Sawchuk writes at the Education Week (1/5, Sawchuk) "Teacher Beat" blog about the "ton of new data on the state of teacher education beginning to come out," noting that the "2008 rewrite of the Higher Education Act changed many of the reporting requirements for teacher colleges," and "those requirements have begun to generate data, beginning with the US Department of Education's newly released report on the teacher preparation and credentialing in the US, and filtering down to states' and individual institutions' reports." Sawchuk examines a number of reports and muses on potential themes for analysis.